Grimes has been using some of her holiday season to develop her Tumblr with a series of honest and thoughtful posts. Though she first started the blog in April, on December 24 she posted a note about why she is hoping to post more often. Along with reblogging fan art ("I'm really honoured that anything I might do could inspire people to make art," she wrote), she also hopes to remedy misrepresentations of her work by other media sites. She explained:

I can only control what goes out by trying to be real, but any writer will skew a story into what they want it to be. There are some really amazing journalists out there for sure, but I just want there to be a place where I can say what I want in a completely unedited way. So that will be happening here.

I get scared a lot and people can be incredibly cruel. Generally, other people are the biggest barrier between you and whatever it is you want to do.

sometimes I completely break down. there is a ton of pressure on me all the time, and a lot of people really hate me and are certainly not meek about letting me know that. If you decide to do something and it’s different from what other people are doing, you will probably make some people very angry and words can be devastating... But like, if you never do it, then you’ll always wonder what would have happened if you did.

I lost my family (temporarily), the relationship i had been in for three years, and a lot of my friends because I decided to put my art first. At the beginning I toured with a tent because I was playing shows for like, ten people and not getting paid, so we had no where to sleep. Granted, this was incredibly fun but sometimes it got really dark.

I think Grimes succeeded because I had to discard everything else in my life in order to do it. I was so fucking desperate to make it work, I don’t think I could have possibly allowed it to fail. I can’t stress how powerful the human mind is. If you want something bad enough, you can probably find a way to make it work.

Very few people on the planet have the opportunity to even follow their dreams at all. Most people live in poverty, or in communities where the repercussions for behaving how they want are a lot worse than just people talking shit. If doing what you want is an option for you, you should do it, because your one of the few lucky people who can. And even if you fail, you will be in a better position than if you’d never tried... every horrible thing that has ever happened to me has added integrity to my art and improved my understanding of the human race.

She closed by writing, "but if you want to make music or art, DO NOT READ YOUR PRESS, DO NOT READ COMMENTS. That's like, the best advice anyone ever gave me."